Re: Looking for a video clip
Yes, studying Dave's contributions to the Trio has really opened my eyes to the fact that he was an incredible musician. The hardest part about trying to duplicate his banjo playing is tempo. They played "Hard Ain't It Hard" at 155 BPM and my arm falls off at about 145. Hopefully nobody will notice if we back off the tempo slightly. And I've never been fast at 3-finger stuff either, so my solo on "MTA" is going to be my own concoction. But listening to many live versions of some of these songs, he did not stick to one way of playing things. And by the way, I do have Pete Curry's book and it's been helpful, altho mainly just to confirm that I was playing what I was hearing on the recordings.
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